This document discusses international entrepreneurship and provides examples and statistics about Brazil. It describes how a small startup company in Michigan called VIO grew from serving the extreme sports market to working with the US military by partnering with companies around the world. The document also notes that over 12% of Brazil's GDP comes from entrepreneurial activity, higher than the world average, and that women are starting businesses in Brazil at increasing rates. While Brazil has made efforts to promote entrepreneurship, complicated regulations and taxes still present challenges for startups.

1. InternationalInternational
EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship
Prepared by
Surbhi Sharma
MBA 3rd
Sem,
RCEW

2. Is Any Entrepreneurship Truly
Local
• Who are your customers?
• Who are your competitors?
• Who are your suppliers?
• Who are your partners?

3. Local or International
• International communications
• Low cost
• High fidelity
• Text
• Audio
• Video
• Timely
• Instantaneous

4. What are your capabilities
• Can you keep your support services
internal?
• Are you a service provider or a
manufacturer?
• What technology do you need?
• What are you shipping and how?

5. An example
• VIO
• Marquette MI
• Produces highly mobile video equipment
• Started in the extreme bike / sport arena
• They have morphed into military applications
• A small one man startup
• Now a multi-million dollar operation

6. Where are their partners?
• Engineering in San Francisco
• Manufacturing in Taiwan
• Software in India
• Marketing in Russia
• Legal work in Michigan

7. Where are their customers?
• Extreme sports enthusiasts throughout the
U. S.
• Extreme sports enthusiasts in Europe
• U. S. military
• How did it go from sports to military?

8. What does this mean to you?
• Brazilian Aviation Industry
• Forest Products
• Bio-fuel technology
• Manufacturing
• Agriculture

9. Brazil’s 2003-2007 Multi-Year Plan
• Called for the promotion of
Entrepreneurship by
• Providing incentives for the enhancement of
small and medium enterprises
• Targets
• Doubling the volume of exports for small and
medium enterprises by 2007
• Increasing the amount of credit to small businesses
from R$10 billion to almost R$18 billion

10. Program Enterprising Brazil
• Launched in 1999
• Has trained more than 2.8 million current or
potential entrepreneurs
• Expects to generate up to 3 million new
jobs

11. Country Import 2005
To Brazil
Country Import 2009
To Brazil
U.S. 17.2% U.S. 15.7%
Argentina 8.5% China 12.5%
Germany 8.4% Argentina 8.8%
China 7.3% Germany 7.7%
Japan 4.6% Japan 4.2%
Country Export 2005
From Brazil
Country Export 2009
From Brazil
U.S. 18.9% China 10.2%
Argentina 8.4% U.S. 10.2%
China 5.7% Argentina 8.4%
Netherlands 4.5% Netherlands 5.3%
Germany 4.2% Germany 4.0%
Trade Partners

12. International
Entrepreneurship.com
• Sites Total Entrepreneurship Activity
(TEA) as a % of GDP for 2001 – 2008 as
12.8% compared to the world average of
10.6%
• Women in 2004 made up 46% of this
number up from just 29% four years prior
• In 2010 it is now 53% women entrepreneurs
• Brazil is moving forward with almost 1 in 8
people classified as an entrepreneur

13. What about regulations?
• Complicated bureaucratic barriers and some of the
most punishing tax rules in the world make life
difficult for would-be entrepreneurs. According to
the International Finance Corporation, start-ups in
Brazil need to fill in 18 separate forms, in
procedures that typically take 152 days. By
contrast, in the US, a start-up involves only six
procedures and takes six days
• http://www.ftd.de/karriere_management/business_e

14. So what is the Entrepreneurial Outlook for Brazil?
• With a population nearing 200 million
• An expanding trade surplus
• Growing markets in China

15. Outlook cont.
• Top goods to name a few
• Sugar
• Soy beans
• Aircraft
• Vehicles
• Iron ore
• Steel
• Textiles
• Footwear

16. Outlook cont.
• The outlook is good
• Ample farmland can be developed
• The opportunity to grow infrastructure is strong
• There are many opportunities for enterprising
Brazilians to enter the marketplace as
entrepreneurs
• Today’s communication capabilities make the
world the stage for business development

17. THANK YOU